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Lieutenant General Count Pier Ruggero Piccio (27 September 1880 – 30 July 1965) was an Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force.With 24 victories during his career, he is one of the principal Italian air aces of World War I, behind only Count Francesco Baracca and Tenente Silvio Scaroni.
Juan Carlos Tanpinco Piccio (born July 6, 1981) is a Filipino former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle and in individual medley events. [1] He won a total of three medals, two silvers and one bronze, at the Southeast Asian Games (1999 and 2001), and later represented the Philippines at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
The Piccio family is a family of Portuguese Jewish origin. It has established branches in Italy, [5] [6] [7] [8] the Philippines and Turkey. [1] [2] Members also ...
Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
Christian Marco Picciolini (born November 3, 1973) is an American former extremist who is the founder of the Free Radicals Project, a global network working to prevent extremism and help people disengage from hate movements.
As soon as Geppetto carves Pinocchio's nose, it begins to grow.. In Tuscany, Italy, a carpenter named Master Antonio finds a log that he plans to carve into a table leg. . However, after being frightened when the log cries out, he gives it to his neighbor Geppetto who wants to carve a puppet from it and make a living as a traveling pup
Piccio was born in Venice in 1579. Originally destined for a medical career, [2] [3] Piccio left medical school and devoted himself to the study of the Talmud. [4] Referring to this episode in his life, Piccio wrote the nowadays oft-quoted passage, “I abandoned my girlfriend,” referring to his medical studies and general preoccupation with the secular world, “and went to my true love ...
The activity of Picchio dal Pozzo has been quite erratic, with five albums published over a period of about 40 years (1976-2011). The style of the band is quite unconventional for the Italian progressive rock scene, showing influences of both Canterbury scene and jazz rock/avantgarde acts (including Soft Machine, Henry Cow, and Frank Zappa).